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Visitor bureaus and main street associations across America are running festival ticketing, trail maps, and shop directories on Google Sheets and Glide — often maintained by a single volunteer. We look at what these scrappy civic stacks accomplish, and what happens when the person who built them leaves town.
Chamber of commerce pitch nights and Facebook-ad gurus are selling 'business in a box' no-code packages to Main Street entrepreneurs. We sat through three real sales presentations, then checked back in with the buyers to see what they actually got — and what they're still paying for.
You spent months polishing your app's look — then a platform update rolled it all back overnight. Here's why no-code builders keep losing control of their own front-ends, and what you can actually do about it.
If your favorite platform announced a price hike tomorrow, how fast could you actually leave? This hands-on guide shows you how to audit where your data lives, what's realistically exportable, and how to build a go-bag that turns a scary vendor breakup into a manageable weekend project.
I moved an entire automation stack — 40 Zaps, three years of history — from Zapier to Make in a single weekend. Here's the unfiltered diary: what broke, what it actually cost, and the honest math on whether switching was worth it.
Imagine getting a 'we're shutting down' email the same week your product goes live. We walk through a fictional-but-painfully-real founder's 48-hour scramble to save her launch, and turn her panic into a playbook you can steal before the next platform pulls the plug.
A growing number of founders are logging into Zapier, staring at their zaps, and hitting delete. This is a look at automation fatigue — why over-automated workflows quietly cost more than they save, and a simple test for deciding what deserves to stay.
Every no-code tutorial eventually hits you with those five dreaded words: 'just paste this JavaScript snippet.' Here's how to decide when a snippet is worth the risk, how to test one without torching your app, and where 'no-code' quietly becomes 'low-code.'
When a no-code tool hikes prices or kills a feature, your business pays the bill. Here's a practical framework for judging vendor risk before you build — and a checklist for planning your exit before you need one.
Somewhere between Chicago and Denver, I rebuilt my entire freelance client portal in Softr — no IT department, no second monitor, just a laptop and airplane WiFi. Here's the honest breakdown of what worked, what broke, and the math that finally justified canceling my old subscription.
After the AI shakeup rearranged the no-code landscape, a lot of 'must-have' tools are suddenly looking optional. We graded the whole stack — from Notion to Make to the platforms quietly bleeding users — and built a tier list you're welcome to fight us on.